论文标题
沮丧的人在社交媒体上表达了更扭曲的思维
Depressed individuals express more distorted thinking on social media
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论文摘要
抑郁症是全球残疾的主要原因，但经常被诊断不清和治疗不足。认知行为疗法（CBT）的宗旨之一是，沮丧的人表现出扭曲的思维方式，所谓的认知扭曲，这可能会对他们的情绪和动机产生负面影响。在这里，我们表明，与随机样本相比，在社交媒体上自我报告诊断为抑郁症的人表达了更高的扭曲思维水平。在我们沮丧的队列中，某些类型的扭曲思维被发现是普遍的两倍以上，尤其是个性化和情感推理。这种效果是特定于表达式的扭曲内容的特定的，无法通过特定主题，情感或第一人称代词的存在来解释。我们的结果表明，通常认为是降低的在线语言模式的检测，甚至可能缓解。他们可能还可以洞悉最近的观察结果，即社交媒体使用可能会对心理健康产生负面影响。
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, but is often under-diagnosed and under-treated. One of the tenets of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is that individuals who are depressed exhibit distorted modes of thinking, so-called cognitive distortions, which can negatively affect their emotions and motivation. Here, we show that individuals with a self-reported diagnosis of depression on social media express higher levels of distorted thinking than a random sample. Some types of distorted thinking were found to be more than twice as prevalent in our depressed cohort, in particular Personalizing and Emotional Reasoning. This effect is specific to the distorted content of the expression and can not be explained by the presence of specific topics, sentiment, or first-person pronouns. Our results point towards the detection, and possibly mitigation, of patterns of online language that are generally deemed depressogenic. They may also provide insight into recent observations that social media usage can have a negative impact on mental health.
